Cloud Hosting Pricing Trends

AWS App Mesh end of support. Service mesh for ECS/EKS being fully retired. All configurations, virtual nodes, and routes will stop functioning. Source ↗

The free plan now has limits of 100K requests/day and 10ms CPU time per invocation, but the paid plan has increased limits and a minimum charge of $5 USD per month. The free plan is still available, but the pricing structure has been clarified and expanded with paid options. Source ↗

The Hobby plan still exists, but several limits have been adjusted or are now pay-as-you-go. Edge Requests are now 1M included / month, then starting at $2 per 1M. Fast Data Transfer is 100 GB / month included, then starting at $0.15 per GB. Blob Storage is 1 GB / month included, then $0.023 per GB. Image Transformations are 5K / month included, then starting at $0.05 per 1K. Function Invocations are 1M / month included, then starting at $0.60 per 1M. Active CPU is 4 hours / month included, then starting at $0.128 per hour. Provisioned Memory is 360 GB-hrs / month included, then starting at $0.0106 per GB-hr. Source ↗

The free tier now offers 300 credits/month. Source ↗

The free tier now has a $1/month minimum after the trial, and the number of projects is reduced to 1 after the trial. The free trial now offers 2 replicas instead of 1. Source ↗

The free plan now only supports Durable Objects with SQLite storage backend. Also, the free tier limits for requests and duration have changed. Source ↗

The free tier now includes compute options with varying RAM and CPU, and the limits for PostgreSQL and Key Value stores have been updated. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier is now 5GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB. Source ↗

Egress bandwidth for the free tier is now 20GiB, down from 100 GB. KV storage remains at 1 GiB, but the free tier now includes 1,000,000 KV read units and 500,000 KV write units. CPU time is now 10 hours, down from 15 hours. Revision storage is 10 GiB. Source ↗

Flightcontrol has been rebranded to Ravion. The free tier still exists, but has specific limits: 1 user, up to 50 modules, and 2,000 pipeline minutes. Source ↗

The free tier still exists. The description is more detailed. The free tier now explicitly states 5GB bandwidth and 1000MB Disk Space. The page also mentions a free website builder, 99.9% Uptime, and 24/7 support as part of the free tier. Source ↗

The free tier now includes a $5.40/mo usage credit instead of a fixed amount of bandwidth and build minutes. Source ↗

Read the Docs now offers two tiers: a free 'Community' plan for open-source projects and a paid 'Business' plan starting at $50/month for commercial projects. The free tier is specifically for open-source software and supports public documentation with ads. Private repository support and SSO are now paid features. Source ↗

AWS Fargate Platform Version 1.3.0 end of support. Tasks on PV 1.3.0 will stop running. Migration to Platform Version 1.4.0+ required. Source ↗

Hetzner's second 2026 adjustment, effective 15 June, moved the two cloud lines at very different rates: shared-vCPU plans rose 30-38% (CX23 €3.99→€5.49, CAX11 €4.49→€5.99) and dedicated-vCPU plans rose 113-175% (CPX22 €7.99→€19.49, CCX13 €15.99→€42.99, CCX53 €249.99→€533.49). EU figures, taken from Hetzner's own old/new table and excluding the €0.50/mo primary IPv4 that hetzner.com's plan cards include in their displayed price. Scope: all dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations, for new orders and rescales only — existing contracts keep their terms. Excluded: web hosting, managed servers, Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage. Setup fees on most dedicated servers were cut at the same time. Read on 2026-09-04: every Cost-Optimized plan (CX23-CX53, CAX11-CAX41) is marked "not available" on hetzner.com, so the line that rose least is the line nobody can order. Source ↗

Windows 365 Business list price decreasing 20% starting May 1, 2026. New 1-hour hibernation feature for idle Cloud PCs to reduce costs. Applies to all Windows 365 Business SKUs. Source ↗

AWS App Runner closed to new customers. Service enters maintenance mode with no new features. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Express Mode for simplified container deployment. Source ↗

Node.js 20 AWS Lambda runtime 3-phase deprecation begins. Phase 1 (April 30): no new function creation. Phase 2 (June 30): no function updates. Phase 3 (August 30): no invocations. Source ↗

AWS WorkSpaces Thin Client end of availability. AWS stopping sales of Thin Client devices. Existing devices continue working but no new hardware can be purchased. Source ↗

Netlify credits-based pricing updated: bandwidth now 20 credits/GB (was 10), compute now 10 credits/GB-hour (was 5), web requests 2 credits/10K (new). Same 300 credits/month allocation but each credit buys less bandwidth and compute. Source ↗

Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team seats (was $20/seat per Git contributor), which effectively removes the prior CMS/Identity 'every committer becomes a $19 Pro seat' gotcha for free-tier users who ever upgrade. Source ↗

Cloud & dedicated server prices increasing 30-50%. Entry-level CX23: €2.99→€3.99/mo (+33%). Applies to new and existing customers. Driven by DRAM (+171% YoY) and NVMe SSD cost surges from AI infrastructure demand. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only. Read from hetzner.com on 2026-09-03: CX23 is €5.99 and is marked "not available", as is every other shared-vCPU plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗

New Pro projects now default to Turbo build machines (30 vCPUs, 60GB memory) at $0.126/minute — 9x more expensive than Standard machines ($0.014/min). Pro plan still $20/seat/month with $20 usage credit, but real-world build costs for moderate teams can hit $400+/month. Standard machines still available but must be manually selected. Source ↗

$5 Hacker tier eliminated, features merged into free and higher tiers Source ↗

Volume snapshots now billed — previously free automatic snapshots now cost $0.08/GB-month Source ↗

Pro plan moved to credit-based model ($20/mo credit pool), Hobby plan metrics renamed and restructured — bandwidth→Fast Data Transfer, serverless split into Active CPU + Provisioned Memory, Blob Storage and Image Transformations added Source ↗

Railway expanded free tier following $100M Series B. Trial plan now includes $5 in free credits/month, sufficient for small hobby projects. Removed credit card requirement for trial Source ↗

Restructured to credit-based pricing; sites pause on credit exhaustion Source ↗

Free web services now spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity (previously 30 minutes). Cold starts take 30-60 seconds. Free tier remains but with faster sleep times Source ↗

Heroku removed all free dynos, free Heroku Postgres, and free Heroku Data for Redis. The iconic PaaS that defined 'free tier' for a generation eliminated free offerings entirely after Salesforce acquisition Source ↗